FAYETTEVILLE – Campbell University Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine fourth year medical student Andrew Harrison was part of the treatment team in the Emergency Department at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center when he observed an unusual case of Compartment Syndrome.
The manuscript entitled “Compartment Syndrome of the Deltoid: A case report of a common presentation in a rare location” was published in the journal “Hospital Practice” this fall. Harrison authored the manuscript with two classmates, Michael Sumner and Jeffrey Sobecki, with the assistance of Dr. Greg Christiansen, chair of emergency medicine at Campbell.
“The case involved an unusual location for compartment syndrome,” said Harrison. “This syndrome is typically a condition of the leg or the forearm. I did a literature review and found very few cases of compartment syndrome of the deltoid, so I felt developing a manuscript could be valuable.”
“This is the second publication our students have done regarding unusual cases of compartment syndrome,” said Dr. Chrstiansen. “Such publications are valuable because they foster awareness of these technical difference and help avoid misdiagnosis, which in the deltoid case, can avoid the loss of a limb by the patient.”
The medical students also presented the case at the FOEM Case Presentation Competition at the ACOEP spring symposium in Scottsdale Arizona.
The manuscript is available at Taylor & Francis Online at: (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21548331.2016.1216237)